Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen.… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to him. It… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
